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The '''1992–93 season''' was the 113th season of competitive '''[[football in England]]'''. The season saw the [[Premier League]] in its first season, replacing [[Football League First Division|Division One]] of the [[Football League]] as the top league in England. Every team in the [[Premier League]] played each other twice within the season, one game [[Road (sports)|away]] and one at [[Home (sports)|home]], and were awarded three points for a win and one for a draw.
 
==Overview==
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In 1992 all of the First Division Clubs resigned from the Football League and, on 27 May, the FA Premier League was formed as a limited company, which worked out of an office at the then [[The Football Association|Football Association]]'s headquarters, [[Lancaster Gate]].
 
The three divisions which remained in the Football League were renamed. The old [[Football League Second Division|Division Two]] was now called [[Football League First Division|Division1st OneDivision]]. The old [[Football League Third Division|Division Three]] was now called [[Football League Second Division|2nd Division Two]], and the old [[Football League Fourth Division|Division Four]] was now [[Football League Third Division|3rd Division Three]].
 
==Individual achievements==
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===Division Three===
* [[Darren Foreman (footballer)|Darren Foreman]] (Scarborough)/[[Carl Griffiths]] (Shrewsbury Town) – 27 goals
[httphttps://www.rsssf.comorg/tablese/engtops.html English League Leading Goalscorers]
 
==Honours==
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<small>Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour (First Division & Premier League). Number after slash is Premier League only. * indicates new record for competition</small>
 
==EnglishEngland national team==
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Newcastle United's first full season under the management of Kevin Keegan ended in Division One championship glory and promotion to the Premier League. Following the Geordies into football's big-money league were West Ham United and Swindon Town. West Ham had suffered relegation just one season earlier, and had been many people's favourites for an automatic return to the elite. Swindon, meanwhile, had finally reached the top flight after 73 years of trying – they had actually won promotion via the playoffs three years earlier, but promotion had been denied a few weeks later due to financial irregularities.
 
Third-placed Portsmouth had opened up a 9-point gap over fourth-placed Tranmere Rovers, but lost to Leicester City in the playoff semi-finals and this ended any promotion hopes for a club who had begun the season as favourites for promotion, and ended it with 88 points. GrimsbyDespite Towna finishedsemi-final anloss impressivein ninththe playoffs, the fourth-place finish for the Rovers was their highest-ever finish in the tablefootball pyramid. Similar to Pompey, whileDerby County was another team that failed to reach their preseason expectations, as they could only 10thmuster eighth-place at season's end. Surprising Grimsby Town, who was occupiedbattling byrelegation a season ago, finished ninth, just above a Peterborough United insquad spending their first season atin the thissecond level.
 
GoingIn downa weretight relegation battle, Brentford, Cambridge United (who had just missed out on promotion a year earlier), Brentford and Bristol Rovers were the unlucky ones to move down to the Second Division. BrentfordThe Bees, newly promoted a season earlier, had stood in 10th place at the turn of 1993, but a sharp decline in form during the final few months of the season saw them relegated on the final day of the season. Five teams finished within three points of relegation, including Luton Town narrowlyand Notts County, who both avoided a second successive relegationdrop.
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Leading goalscorer: [[Guy Whittingham]] (Portsmouth) – 42
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3 July 1992 – [[Ron Atkinson]] appoints [[Dave Sexton]], the man he succeeded as [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] manager eleven years ago, to his coaching staff at [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]].
 
6 July 1992 – [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] sign 21-year-old goalkeeper [[David James (footballer, born 1970)|David James]] from [[Watford F.C.|Watford]] for £1&nbsp;million.
 
8 July 1992 – [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]] sign [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]] winger [[Stuart Ripley]] for £1.3&nbsp;million.
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14 April 1993 – 20-year-old striker [[Chris Sutton]] scores a hat-trick for Norwich as a 4–2 home win over Leeds keeps their title hopes alive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk/season/S1992-93/1993-04-14.html|title=1993-04-14}}</ref>
 
17 April 1993 – Midfielder [[Mark Walters]] scores a hat-trick as Liverpool beat Coventry City 4–0 in the Premier League at [[Anfield]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.liverweb.org.uk/season.asp?season=199293 |title=LIVERWEB – Liverpool Results 1992–93 |access-date=1 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606133754/http://www.liverweb.org.uk/season.asp?season=199293 |archive-date=6 June 2011 |url-status=usurpeddead}}</ref> Manchester United remain in pole position with a 3–0 home win over Chelsea, which puts the title mathematically beyond Blackburn's reach despite a 3–1 win at Sheffield United. Liverpool's improvement in form continues with a 4–0 home win over Coventry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk/season/S1992-93/1993-04-17.html|title=1993-04-17}}</ref>
 
18 April 1993 – Arsenal beat Sheffield Wednesday 2–1 in the League Cup final. [[Steve Morrow]], the scorer of Arsenal's winning goal, breaks his arm in a freak accident during the on-pitch celebrations and would likely miss next month's FA Cup final between the same two teams.
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